National day of intercession and forgiveness:
Aba-Afari calls pastors, religious leaders to lead prayer crusade against crime in SA
As the crime situation in South Africa continues to hold the nation at the jugular, the call has gone out to religious leaders and all of them that truly believe in divine intervention to pull the nation out of the brink of the surging blotch. The reason is to pray.
Over the period, there have been all sorts of crime – carjacking, murder, rape, violent crimes – spewing out of the land, but now Dr. Sarah Aba-Afari, Africa’s first female PhD police officer, and a minister of the gospel has beckoned on the clergy to seek the face of God on behalf of the nation. She says if there are persons to pray, there is God (of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) that answers prayers to whom the people will resort. She believes that He who sits on the heavenly throne will surely answer.
The Ghanaian-born top police officer spoke to mdntvlive.com in an exclusive interview during which she proposed a nationwide day of prayers as part of a three-pronged approach to tackling the escalation of crime in the nation. The others include art/painting and the partnership between the family and community policing as modes of confronting the challenge.
Dr. Aba-Afari said the clergy and faith-based organizations should jointly plan this spiritual exercise with the aim of dislodging forces that have held the nation captive with the appropriate message against crime and violence.
